Recycling

Please don't hate me if I'm not all "green earth" to the extreme (though I do think we should care for the resources around us.  That's just good stewardship.  It's the worship of the environment that gets us in trouble - care for, not worship.  Worship is reserved for God alone.)
Y'all probably already know this, but I'm new to the bunny world.  I've never had rabbits, but am finding out they can be expensive to keep.
First of all, they grow from the cute little bunnies they were in April to big ol' rabbits, needing a bigger place to live.  There's this neat e-mail group called Freecycle that I'm part of.  A lady posted a rabbit hutch and we were fortunate enough to catch it before it was snatched up, so our bunnies now have a larger home, just in time for winter...

I've been doing some reading, and there is some debate for and some against heat lamps in the hutch.  The "against" crowd says that rabbits like cooler weather, and that if the rabbits have a good burrowing place with lots of bedding, and if their water can be kept from freezing, they'll be quite happy in the winter.
The reason for this post is the bedding.  That stuff is expensive!  You mean to tell me I have to buy wood chips or shredded cardboard for them to burrow, poop and pee on?
Uh no...
Enter the relevance for my reference to being "green".  I had this brainy thought of shredding our own bedding, as in using those newspapers that were just lying around.
Once I started the shredding, Abigail and Niki thought it looked like fun, so they joined me!

And, no, that is not one of the rabbits.  That is our spoiled rotten "brat" of a dog, Niki ;)  (see the shredded paper in the bag?)
Now our bunnies...  Alanis

and Marley

(they're wiggly and it's hard to get good pics!)
will be warm in the winter.